High-intensity demonstrations lined the streets outside United Nations headquarters on Thursday, as competing pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups gathered during the UN General Assembly.

While the rhetoric on the pavement was deafening, APB News was on site to look past the shouting, the megaphones, and the banners to look strictly at what is happening on the ground in the Middle East.

While protesters on both sides of the barricades demand swift, absolute victories, the diplomatic truth inside the UN security chambers is that neither a military victory nor a humanitarian resolution can happen in a vacuum. It requires bilateral compliance that current geopolitical realities simply haven’t allowed for yet.